Writing

 
 

ABC Radio National

Giving and Taking on Mother’s Day. Broadcast and hosted online with Radio National.


Memoir

I am currently seeking representation for my first memoir, STEMMING FROM THE MUD (working title), a raw, candid memoir of family dysfunction and loss that turns loneliness into love, told by a young woman whose quest for belonging takes her across the seven continents, ultimately landing home within the strength of her own heart. Read more.

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Still Gone

A poem written for my Mom on the 25th anniversary of her death.


Stockpiling Fear: Unpacking lessons from my doomsayer mother

‘The San Andreas Fault is going to give, Lani. I’m keeping you and Dirk safe. If your other brothers don’t want to move now, I can’t make them.’

It was 1989. I was fifteen years old. My Mom had begun to believe the prediction of her psychic friend, Heather, that ‘major earth changes’ were imminent, and in order to have a hope of surviving, we must change our lives. Read more.